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Abstract Painting Now!

Gerhard Richter, Katharina Grosse, Sean Scully …

Kunsthalle Krems

2017/07/02-2017/11/05

Opening: 2017/07/01

The exhibition “Abstract Painting Now!“ surveys the international landscape of abstract

painting today. Featuring more than 60 positions from Gerhard Richter to Sean Scully and

Katharina Grosse, the show unfolds a broad and diverse range of this significant painterly

practice. The focus is on the nonrepresentational panel painting in all its variants, whether

geometric, ornamental, processual, or materially layered.

Curator: Florian Steininger

Tobias Pils.

Untitled

Kunsthalle Krems

2017/07/02-2017/11/05

Opening: 2017/07/01

For the Central Hall of the Kunsthalle Krems, Tobias Pils has conceived a painting

installation. Recklessly interlacing abstract and figurative passages, his painted and drawn

marks wage a battle between the logic of consecutive steps and its very subversion.

Zigzagging like a hare in flight, Pils playfully frees himself of himself while keeping the

tension of the achromatic painting at an absolute high.

Curator: Verena Gamper

Sébastien de Ganay.

Transposition and Reproduction

Kunsthalle Krems in der Dominikanerkirche

2017/07/02-2017/10/15

Opening: 2017/07/01

In the centre of Sébastien de Ganay’s examination of the auratic exhibition venue, the former

Dominikanerkirche, is the transformation of this once sacred into a secular space. De Ganay

uses elements of liturgy as source material for his installation, translating them into a mostly

abstract-minimalist vocabulary of forms. The objects are autonomous but still enter into a

dialogue with both the surrounding space and the viewers.

Curator: Andreas Hoffer

INDEX

Index ................................................................................................................................................. 3

Kunsthalle Krems ........................................................................................................................... 4

Abstract Painting Now! ................................................................................................................... 5

Artists ........................................................................................................................................... 6

Catalogue ..................................................................................................................................... 6

Press pictures ............................................................................................................................. 7

Tobias Pils .......................................................................................................................................10

Artist Book ..................................................................................................................................11

Biography Tobias Pils.................................................................................................................11

Press pictures ............................................................................................................................12

Sébastien de Ganay Transposition and Reproduction ..................................................................13

Catalogue ....................................................................................................................................13

Biography Sébastien de Ganay ..................................................................................................14

Press pictures ............................................................................................................................15

Exhibition Dates ..............................................................................................................................16

Kunsthalle Krems

The Kunsthalle Krems is the international exhibition centre for modern and contemporary art

in Lower Austria. Its program features art after 1945 with a special focus on contemporary

artistic production. The Kunsthalle Krems offers a large platform to positions of both

established and emerging young artists from Austria and abroad, a platform to present

innovative, cross-media, socially topical and art-specific contributions. These presentations in

the form of extensive thematic and solo exhibitions are complemented by exhibitions from

private collections of contemporary art. From July 1, 2017, the reopened Kunsthalle Krems

presents a survey exhibition of present-day abstract painting, an installation by Tobias Pils, and

a site-specific project by Sébastien de Ganay at our new additional venue, the

Dominikanerkirche.

Artistic Director: Florian Steininger


Gerhard Richter, Katharina Grosse, Sean Scully ...

2017/07/02-2017/11/05

Kunsthalle Krems

Abstraction is considered as one of the significant formal articulations of modern art, and it is

most closely associated with painting. The relentless analysis of the medium, breaking it down

to its zero point, by the avant-garde of the 1910s was followed by a recurrent burgeoning of

nonrepresentational painting, particularly in Abstract Expressionism, Informalism, and Minimal

Art. Aftermodern abstraction of the 1960s was informed by skepticism of painting and the very

idea of creative authorship; this was counterpointed with sensuality and intuition in the

postmodern phase from the 1980s. Featuring some sixty different art positions, the exhibition

Abstract Painting Now! will place the focus on the present-day international situation of the

nonrepresentational easel painting, covering the full range of a still significant painterly

practice. The historical basis of the show is the development that followed upon Abstract

Expressionism, carried above all by Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. While the former after

a period of agony, in which his grey “Inpaintings” were created, turned to the beautiful and

seemingly expressive, the latter used abstraction as an ironic paraphrase, thus commenting on

the veracity of the brush stroke as a mark of the artist self.

Deconstruction, criticism of authorship, mixing, quotation and ornament are some of the

defining parameters of abstract painting today, when Wade Guyton is using an ink-jet printer to

produce his minimalist striped pictures. Katharina Grosse switches from the traditional brush

to the airbrush, creating iridescent colour fields. In classical modern painting, ornament was

considered a crime, worthless skimmings in autonomous art. Within the stylistic plurality of

postmodernism, it finds a place for itself again in abstract paintings of Ross Bleckner and

Philip Taaffe. This expanded notion of abstraction also includes nature and landscape in the

form of neoromantic expressive colour fields like those by Per Kirkeby. In Sean Scully, the

geometric constructivism and painterly atmosphere come together in a symbiosis of reason

and emotion. Spirituality and geometrical abstraction in the succession of Kazimir Malevich

and Barnett Newman are essential to the work of Helmut Federle. In Brice Marden and Lee

Ufan, the spiritual in art appears stored up in the brush stroke as a sign of the meditative act.

This earnestness and the concentration on spirit and image are also found in the monochrome

paintings of Marcia Hafif, Joseph Marioni, and Günter Umberg. New abstract tendencies

developed in Austria as well, which naturally integrated with the international positions into a

larger whole: from the 1980s, there were neo-geometric conceptual works by Ernst Caramelle,

Gerwald Rockenschaub, and Heimo Zobernig which originated side by side with colour field

paintings by Erwin Bohatsch, Herbert Brandl, Hubert Scheibl, and Walter Vopava.

In the exhibition, this will be followed by a number of more recent positions that have continued

the abstraction project in its full range until the present day.

Curator: Florian Steininger

Artists

Tomma Abts, John M. Armleder, Ross Bleckner, Erwin Bohatsch, Herbert Brandl, André

Butzer, Ernst Caramelle, Gunter Damisch, Svenja Deininger, Helmut Federle, Günther Förg,

Mark Francis, Bernard Frize, Jakob Gasteiger, Rudolf Goessl, Franz Grabmayr, Katharina

Grosse, Wade Guyton, Marcia Hafif, Peter Halley, Nancy Haynes, Mary Heilmann, Secundino

Hernández, Callum Innes, Martha Jungwirth, Franco Kappl, Per Kirkeby, Imi Knoebel, Kurt

Kocherscheidt, Suse Krawagna, Jonathan Lasker, Eugène Leroy, Caitlin Lonegan, Brice

Marden, Joseph Marioni, Jason Martin, Sarah Morris, Frank Nitsche, Walter Obholzer, Albert

Oehlen, Ahmet Oran, Sigmar Polke, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter, Gerwald Rockenschaub,

Thomas Scheibitz, Hubert Scheibl, Adrian Schiess, Christoph Schirmer, Josef Schwaiger, Sean

Scully, Pat Steir, Rudolf Stingel, Philip Taaffe, Liliane Tomasko, Lee Ufan, Günter Umberg,

Juan Uslé, Charline von Heyl, Walter Vopava, Christopher Wool, Natalia Załuska, Otto Zitko,

Heimo Zobernig.

Catalogue

Accompanying the exhibition, the catalogue Abstract Painting Now! Gerhard Richter, Katharina

Grosse, Sean Scully ... with texts by Heinrich Klotz, Ulrich Loock, Demetrio Paparoni and

Florian Steininger will be published.

Title: Abstract Painting Now! Gerhard Richter,

Katharina Grosse, Sean Scully ...

Editor: Florian Steininger

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther

König

Date of Publication: 2017

Size (Width x Height): 230 x 280 mm

Number of Pages: 216 pages

Cover: Hardcover

Language: German / English

Texts: Heinrich Klotz, Ulrich Loock, Demetrio

Paparoni, Florian Steininger

Price: € 29,80

Press pictures

The following press pictures are protected by copyright law and may only be used for press

purposes in the context of current media coverage. Press pictures may be published only with

complete references, including a copyright notice.

The images are available for download:

http://bit.ly/AbstractPaintingNow

Gerhard Richter

Frau in

Hollywoodschaukel 196-3,

1968

Oil on Canvas

95 x 115 cm

ACT Art Collection Siggi

Loch

Courtesy Richter Images

© Gerhard Richter 2017

(0131)

Gerhard Richter

Abstraktes Bild 559-1,

1984

Oil on Canvas

200 x 300 cm

Kunstsammlung der

Hypo Vereinsbank -

Member of UniCredit

Courtesy Richter Images

© Gerhard Richter 2017

(0131)

Sigmar Polke

Ohne Titel, 1990s

Mixed media on Paper

200 x 150 cm

Private collection

© The Estate of Sigmar

Polke, Cologne /

Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017

Photo: Kunsthalle Krems

/ Markus Schauer

Erwin Bohatsch

Ohne Titel, 2015

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

250 x 200 cm

Courtesy Erwin Bohatsch

Photo: Jorit Aust

Liliane Tomasko

Texere, 2016

Oil and Acrylic Spray on

Canvas

208,3 x 193 cm

Courtesy bechter

kastowsky galerie, Vienna

© Liliane Tomasko

Photo: Robert Bean

Photography

Katharina Grosse

Ohne Titel, 2010

Acrylic on Canvas

242 x 161 cm

Private collection

Courtesy Galerie nächst

St. Stephan Rosemarie

Schwarzwälder, Vienna

© Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017

Photo: Sebastian

Schobbert

Per Kirkeby

Summer Storm, 1986

Oil on Canvas

200 x 110 cm

Courtesy Tobias Pils


/ Jorit Aust

Eugène Leroy

Deux petites arbres, 1986

Oil on Canvas

54,8 x 46 cm

Sammlung Hainz, Vienna

© Bildrecht Vienna, 2017


/ Christian Redtenbacher

Martha Jungwirth

Ohne Titel (aus der Serie

„Richard Gerstl, Bildnis

der Schwestern Frey“),

2016

Oil on Paper on Canvas

215 x 140 cm

Courtesy Galerie

Krinzinger and the artist


Photo: Lisa Rastl

Martha Jungwirth

Ohne Titel (aus der Serie

„Richard Gerstl, Bildnis

der Schwestern Frey“),

2016

Oil on Paper on Canvas

185 x 137 cm

Courtesy Galerie

Krinzinger and the artist


Photo: Lisa Rastl

Nancy Haynes

Red Orange Scaffold,

2000/01,

Oil on Canvas

61 x 72 cm

Private collection Vienna

Courtesy Galerie Hubert

Winter, Vienna

© Nancy Haynes

Walter Vopova

Ohne Titel, 2016

Acrylic on Canvas

300 x 200 cm

Courtesy the artist


/ Lisa Rastl

Mark Francis

Solar, 2009,

Acrylic varnish and Oil on

Canvas

213 x 152 cm

Courtesy Galerie Thomas

Schulte


Photo: Matthias

Schormann

Bernard Frize

Balaire, 2015,

Acrylic and resin on

Canvas

200 x 320 cm

Courtesy Galerie nächst

St. Stephan Rosemarie

Schwarzwälder, Vienna


Photo: © Markus

Wörgötter

Ross Bleckner

Loons to Sandpipers, 1996

Oil on Canvas

212 x 183 cm

Sammlung Siegfried und

Jutta Weishaupt

Courtesy Galerie Nikolaus

Ruzicska, Salzburg

Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi

Philip Taaffe

Lupinus Culcidae, 1996

Mixed media on Canvas

197 x 169,5 cm

evn sammlung, Maria

Enzersdorf

Courtesy Luhring

Augustine New York

© Philip Taaffe

Chirstopher Wool

Untitled, 1991

Alkyd on Paper

132 x 101 cm

Private collection

Photo: © Markus

Wörgötter

Charline von Heyl

Cluster, 2015

Acrylic on Canvas

152,5 x 127 cm

Sammlung Stolitzka,

Graz

Photo: Butcher Walsh

Wade Guyton

Untitled, 2010,

Epson UltraChrome inkjet

printing on Canvas

213,4 x 175,3 cm

Sammlung Stolitzka, Graz

Photo: Nick Ash

Sean Scully

Figure Figure, 2004

Oil on Canvas

243,8 x 214 cm

Private collection

Courtesy Neo Neo, Inc.

© Sean Scully

Svenja Deininger

Ohne Titel, 2016

Oil on Canvas

180 x 130 cm

Private Collection

Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda,

Vienna

Photo: © Markus Wörgötter

Mary Heilmann

Theorem, 2002

Oil on Canvas

76,2 x 76,2 x 3 cm

Peter Huber Private

collection

Photo: Barbora Gerny-

Vojtěchová

Tomma Abts

Inte, 2013

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

48 x 38 x 2 cm

Private collection Cologne

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz,

Berlin

Photo: Nick Ash

Sarah Morris

State Department

(Capital), 2002

Varnish on Canvas

214 x 214 cm

evn sammlung, Maria

Enzersdorf,

Courtesy Galerie Meyer

Kainer, Vienna

Photo: Galerie Meyer

Kainer, Vienna

Christoph Schirmer

1_2_2000, 2016

Mixed Media on Canvas

160 x 120 cm

Private collection

Courtesy bechter kastowsky

galerie, Vienna

Photo: © Christoph Schirmer

Tobias Pils

Untitled

2017/07/02-2017/11/05

Kunsthalle Krems

With their freehanded interlacing of nonrepresentational and figurative passages, the painted

and drawn formations deployed by Tobias Pils are a battle between the logic of consecutive

steps and its overturning. Doubling like a hare, Pils plays himself free from himself; elements

like ribbons, eyelashes, feet, and grids are set against opaque colour patches, washes, or

neglected areas. This unstable mass is defined by transitions, which, in a movement of parallel

addressing and rejecting, keep the tension of the achromatic picture at a peak.

Although his paintings are self-contained units, Pils intensely reflects the character of the

spaces in which his works are presented. In the painting installation he conceived for the

Central Hall of the Kunsthalle Krems, he takes the opportunity to stage this atrium as a

daylight space. He also resists the logic of the space in that he refrains from the obvious

solution of using the wall as a presentation surface. By activating a zone of impossibility—the

only glass wall—he submits the space to the necessities of his painting.

A foot shown at the bottom edge helps taking a first step into the picture. But in the vicinity of

flat shapes as well as linear and gridded structures, it all of a sudden appears as a purely

compositional formation and loses credibility as a narrative element. The narrative is indeed as

good as bled dry in the area around the foot. On the sides of the lower sections of the picture

plane, edgy brackets are to be seen, while around them large areas of the picture surface must

content themselves with the thin wash of colour otherwise used as ground. A hybrid of

macroscopic fabric, sketchy brickwork, and abstract grid of lines makes for the vertical buildup

of the composition along the central axis. But then the figure makes its comeback in full force:

up on top, high above everything, there are three pregnant females reclining, their swollen

breasts and bellies protruded upward, weightless. In a structure of rhythmicized undulation,

they articulate not only a horizontal line but also an ornamental border. It is the confluence of

the figurative and the ornamental that is quintessential to the painting of Tobias Pils: in

unfolding his emotions in the painting process without reserve, the innermost is turned on the

outside to the point at which the personal gains universal meaning. And this also is the very

point at which it becomes possible to lay three pregnant women to rest in the repeating pattern

of a frieze.

Curator: Verena Gamper

Artist Book

Accompanying the installation Tobias Pils. Untitled, the artist book Tobias Pils. Doves with the

poem Doves by Henri Cole and a text by Verena Gamper will be published.

Title: Tobias Pils. Doves

Editor: Florian Steininger

Publisher: Vfmk Verlag für moderne Kunst GmbH


Size (Width x Height): 240 x 330 mm


Cover: Hardcover


Texts: Henri Cole, Verena Gamper

Price: € 19,90

Biography

Tobias Pils

born in 1971 in Linz

1990 – 1994 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

lives and works in Vienna

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2017 Le Consortium, Dijon (with Michael Williams)

Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York

Kunsthalle Krems, Krems

2016 Chinati Foundation, John Chamerlain Building, Marfa, Texas

Loge Capitain No 1, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Capitain Petzel, Berlin

Unlimited - Art Basel, Basel

2015 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

2013 Secession, Vienna

Press pictures





http://bit.ly/TobiasPils

Tobias Pils

Untitled (Room), Art Basel

Unlimited, 2016

Courtesy Galerie Gisela

Capitain, Cologne, Galerie

Eva Presenhuber, Zurich,

and Tobias Pils

Photo: Jorit Aust

Tobias Pils

Untitled, 2017

Courtesy Galerie Gisela

Capitain, Cologne, Galerie

Eva Presenhuber, Zurich,

and Tobias Pils

Photo: Jorit Aust

Sébastien de Ganay


2017/07/02-2017/10/15


From 2017, the Dominikanerkirche in the heart of the old town of Krems will be used by

Kunsthalle Krems as an additional exhibition venue in the summer season. The first exhibition

project is implemented by Sébastien de Ganay with an installation as a work in situ. In the

centre of his exploration of the site is the transformation of the purpose of the space, from

church to profane event and exhibition venue. Now-disappeared components of liturgy like

light, sound, word and image are made to come to life again. To do so, de Ganay appropriates

existing elements which he translates into a mostly abstractminimalist visual language.

Curator: Andreas Hoffer

Catalogue

The catalogue with texts by Max Henry, Andreas Hoffer, Florian Steininger and Jeannette

Zwingenberger will be published on the occasion of the exhibition Sébastien de Ganay.

Transposition and Reproduction.

Title: Sébastien de Ganay. Transposition and

Reproduction. A Gothic Context

Editors: Kunsthalle Krems and The Provincial

Government of Lower Austria, Department of Art

and Culture, St. Pölten, Austria

Publisher: Kerber Verlag


Size (Width x Height): 24 x 29 cm



Texts: Max Henry, Andreas Hoffer,

Florian Steininger, Jeannette Zwingenberger

Biography

Sébastien de Ganay

Born in 1962 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France

1986–1990 Columbia University, New York

Lives and works in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Austria

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2017 „Transposition an Reproduction“, Dominikanerkirche in der Kunsthalle, Krems

2016 „Space on the Move“, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich

“Non-Places”, Galerie Steinek, Vienna

2015 „Fold”, Häusler Contemporary, Munich

„Folded Flat”, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg

„Out of Line“, raumimpuls, Waidhofen/ Ybbs

Untitled Art Fair, solo stand with Häusler Contemporary, Miami Beach

2014 „Over Again Forever”, Galerie Steinek, Vienna

„Turn the green light on”, Intitut Francais at Palais Clam-Gallas, Vienna

2013 „You are here", Galerie Günter Salzmann, Innsbruck

Galerie Rauminhalt, Vienna

St.Moritz Art Masters, Schlosserei, St. Moritz

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2016 „Another Spray“, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich

„Kugel.RUND", NöArt, touring exhibition

2015 „entre.SCULPTURES" Galerie Maerz, Linz

2014 „Hier steht ein Sessel - Sessel, Stuhl, Hocker in der Kunst", Tranklhaus, Salzburg

„Opening", LOCOMOT, Seilerstätte, Vienna

„(Un)Expected Form", Galerie LOCOMOT, Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna

2013 „Book Machine“, Le Nouveau Festival du Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris

„BlackBox_WhiteCube”, Stadtgalerie, Waidhofen/Ybbs

Press pictures





http://bit.ly/SébastienDeGanay

Sébastien de Ganay

Choir, 2017

© Studio Sébastien de

Ganay, Drones

photography: Rio Liovic

/ Ebo Rose

Sébastien de Ganay

Choir, 2017


Ganay, Drones


/ Ebo Rose

Sébastien de Ganay

Amiens Floor, 2017


Ganay, Drones


/ Ebo Rose

Sébastien de Ganay

Amiens Floor, 2017


Ganay, Photo: Simon

Veres

Sébastien de Ganay

Candle, 2017


Ganay, Photo: Simon

Veres

Sébastien de Ganay

Candle, 2017


Ganay, Photo: Simon

Veres

Sébastien de Ganay

Prayer Stool Crate, 2017


Ganay, Photo: Simon

Veres

Exhibition Dates


Gerhard Richter, Katharina Grosse, Sean Scully …

2017/07/02-2017/11/05

Kunsthalle Krems

Tobias Pils

Untitled

2017/07/02-2017/11/05

Kunsthalle Krems

Sébastien de Ganay


2017/07/02-2017/10/15


Opening

Sat, 2017/07/01

5 p.m. Opening at Kunsthalle Krems

Abstract Painting Now! Gerhard Richter,

Katharina Grosse, Sean Scully …

Tobias Pils. Untitled

7 p.m. Parade with Balkansambel to the

Dominikanerkirche

7.45 p.m. Opening at the Dominikanerkirche

Sébastien de Ganay


8.15 p.m. Summer Party of the Kunsthalle Krems

at the cloister garden of the Dominikanerkirche

Welcome Speech

Florian Steininger, artistic director of the

Kunsthalle Krems

Exhibition Speeches

Florian Steininger, Curator

Verena Gamper, Curator

Andreas Hoffer, Curator

The artists are present.

Official Opening

Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Governor of Lower Austria

Guided Tours

Regularly guided tours on

Sundays and holidays

11 a.m. Dominikanerkirche

1 – 3 a.m. Art Info at Kunsthalle Krems

no registration required

Press Kit

All press material is available for download:



http://bit.ly/SébastienDeGanay

Press Contact

Andrea Fraunbaum

Head of Marketing and Communications

T +43 2732 908010-172

E [email protected]

Angelika Starkl

Press and Communications

T +43 2732 908010-176

E [email protected]

Exhibition spaces

Kunsthalle Krems

Franz-Zeller-Platz 3

3500 Krems an der Donau

Opening hours:

Tue – Sun and Mon, if holidays, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Kunsthalle in der Dominikanerkirche

Körnermarkt 14


Opening hours:

Daily from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

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Franz-Zeller-Platz 3


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